Randy Bias has been deeply involved with IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He currently serves on the executive team of GoGrid, an early cloud computing pioneer, as VP Technology Strategy. Bias specializes in highly available, secure, and scalable datacenter, storage, systems and network design. His earliest extreme uptime, high scalability involvement was with InterNex Information Services, a Bay Area ISP pioneer and eventually the XO Communications backbone. More recently, he provided the vision and direction behind the CloudScale Project, which was focused on building next generation scalable operations tools for clouds and datacenters.
Cloudcenters provide the same kinds of tools that all datacenter and server operators are already accustomed to, but with all the traditional advantages of cloud (i.e. self-service, pay-as-you-go, and scalability). Instead of creating completely new paradigms, cloudcenters are a method...Jan. 14, 2009 06:49 AM EST Reads: 6,207
There is a myth going around about virtualization and cloud computing. It’s expressed in a variety of ways, but the takeaway is always the same: “Public clouds are big virtual server clouds.” Sounds good, but untrue once you look under the covers. For good reason, since virtualization ...
